THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN CASSAVA PROCESSORS AND MODERN CASSAVA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Cassava Processing Techniques, Socio-Economic Characteristics, Rain Forest Zone, Savannah Zone, Women Cassava Processors.Abstract
This study examined the extent of relationships between socio-economic characteristics of women cassava processors and utilization of modern cassava-processing techniques in Ogun State. A hypothesis was formed to achieve the purpose of the study. A multi-stage sampling method was used to select 546 women cassava processors in Ogun State. In the first stage, 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Ogun state were stratified into Savannah and Rain Forest Agro- Ecological Zones. The second stage involved the selection of two LGAs from Savannah and four LGAs from Forest Zones. The third stage involved a random selection of 36 Villages of the selected LGAs with 12 and 24 from each zones. Finally, 10.0% of women cassava processors were randomly selected from the villages, comprising 201 and 345 women cassava processors from each zones. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire and analyzed using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) and Chi-square statistics. The result showed that marital status is significantly related to the level of utilization of processing techniques among respondents in savannah zone (x2-29.72, p<0.05), and no significant relationship existed in the forest zone (x2-12.93, p>0.05) as well as when the zones were pooled (x2-13.37, p>0.05). The result also showed that educational level is significantly related to the level of the utilization of processing techniques in savannah and forest zones with (x2=15.57, p<0.05; 72-44.96, p<0.05). The result also showed that cosmos-politeness of respondents is significantly related to the level of the utilization of processing techniques in the forest zone (x2=33.26, p<0.05) and the pooled result (x2=28.57, p<0.05) as well as in the savannah zone, cosmos-politeness is not significantly related to the level of the use of processing techniques (x2=2.10, p>0.05). Respondents' age is also found to significantly related to the utilization of processing techniques in the savannah zone (r=0.33, p<0.05) and not significantly related to the utilization of processing techniques in the forest zone (r=0.08. p<0.05) while it is significantly correlated to the pooled result from both zones (r= -0.16; p<0.05). The result further showed that the household size of respondents was only significant in the savannah zone (r= 0.15; p<0.05), in such that household with capable hands to operate the equipment enhances the level of the utilization of cassava processing techniques.
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